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Discover LudwigThe phrase "avoid stamp" is not correct and does not convey a clear meaning in written English.
It may be intended to suggest refraining from using a stamp, but without context, it is ambiguous.
Example: "Please avoid stamp on the documents to prevent any confusion."
Alternatives: "refrain from stamping" or "do not use a stamp".
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Properties owned offshore could previously avoid stamp duty, because the shares of the company were transferred rather than the house.
People who purchase the flats from the current owners can avoid stamp duty by buying the offshore companies used to buy them without triggering a taxable property transfer.
Tackle tax avoidance and evasion, with new powers for HMRC and a law to ensure properties can't avoid stamp duty if they are put into an offshore trust.
We should, for instance, close the loophole that allows the super-rich to avoid stamp duty by putting their Chelsea mansions in their companies' names.
"To tackle the continued use of enveloped properties to avoid stamp duty, I am increasing the new annual charge by 50 per cent above inflation on properties worth over £2 million".
Using an offshore company to own land in Barbados can avoid stamp duty of about 1% and a property transfer tax of about 2.5% when the land is sold on.
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In highlighting cultural peaks (or valleys, depending on one's view), it was hard to avoid stamps showing Superman and the Slinky.
Some diplomats here expect the White House to take a more calibrated approach to Mr. Qurei than it did to Mr. Abbas, if only to avoid stamping him as made in America.
Bread is both signifier and statement of intent, be it Michelin-chirpsing pancetta-studded brioche or heated-up industrial baguette that might as well have "avoid" stamped through it like a stick of seaside rock.
The Liberal Democrats are urging George Osborne to include a mansion tax on homes worth £2m and measures to stop the rich avoiding stamp duty when they sell their properties by transferring ownership to shell companies.
It doesn't sound much - and spread-betting has the advantage of avoiding stamp duty - but it does mean that any position has to improve by this amount just to break even.
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